School Admissions & Exclusions Update

Introduction

This webinar will focus on some of the more unusual and difficult aspects of admissions law, as well as recent legal developments.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Updated DfE significant change guidance
• Recent case law on section 19 of the Education Act 1996, including R (on the application of D) v Hampshire CC
• Placing pupils in off-site alternative provision
• Admissions obligations applying to non-maintained special schools but not other independent special schools
• Case law on exclusion of SEND pupils for violence
• Admissions and exclusions issues arising out of the testimonies on the ‘Everyone’s Invited’ website. The Ofsted and DfE responses on this fast-moving and important issue

This webinar was recorded on 2nd August 2021